Chapter 13: On the Road Again!
"Let's play DBZ Budakai," T.J said smiling. Spinelli nodded and gave him a controller, then put the game in, "are you ready to lose?" "Me lose? I think that you will be the one to lose," he said, "whose first player?" "You are," she answered.
(2 Hours Later) "Pookie, T.J get ready, the doctor said we could leave now," Flo said entering the room. "Ok, see ya in a few T.J," Spinelli said leaving. "Yeah, by the way I want a rematch," T.J said with a pout. "Sure just because I beat you 13 times out of 15 you want a rematch," Spinelli said, leaving the room. "Hey mom?" Spinelli asked.
"Yeah," Flo said. "You said you were only going to be gone an hour, but you were gone two why?" Spinelli asked. Flo stopped, 'should I tell her?' She thought it would be best not to lie. " I went to see Dean," she said sadly.
Spinelli felt her stomach turn, " Why?" " I had to ask him why he did what he did," her mother replied. Spin sighed, " I just wanna forget the whole thing." Flo smiled, " in time you will." Spinelli just smiled.
Her room was right down the hall from T.J's. ' I'm sooo sorry honey,' Flo said to herself. Ten minutes later Spinelli walked out of her room, she held her bag, which was really small. Since she had spent the night in T.J's room; all her get-well stuff was in T.J's room. It was funny because T.J had little room to move.
20 minutes after she was done T.J walked out of his room, with about 3 huge bags of get well stuff, and a bag of his clothes. His dad and Spinelli's dad were helping him carry them. "Here we go," Flo said. A nurse pulled up with a wheelchair, "here you go." "What do you mean?" Spinelli asked.
"It's hospital policy that patients that suffer from gunshots get carried out in wheelchairs," the nurse said smiling. "No way am I sitting in that thing!" Spinelli yelled. (5 minutes later) "I can't believe I'm sitting in a wheelchair," Spinelli mumbled. T.J was being pushed down the hall too, infact he was right next to her. "The only time I like being in a wheelchair is when I'm PLAYING in one," T.J said smiling.
Soon they reached the cars. "Hun, why don't you and Mr. Detwiler take the kids home, us girls have something important to do," said Mrs. Spinelli. " Okay, we'll see you when?" asked Mr. Detwiler. "Sometime tonight, probably," Mrs. Detwiler said. "Ok see ya later mom, Mrs. Spinelli," T.J said waving.
"Yeah see soon," Spinelli said smiling. "Come on kids, get in the car," Mr. Detwiler said smiling. The four hopped in the little car, while the women hopped in the mini van. "Finally we're going home," Spinelli said smiling. "Princess you two were in the hospital less than 48 hours," Bob said smiling.
"Yeah, it was even less than 32 hours I think," Tom said. "Well it felt like FOREVER," T.J said. "What time is it?" Spinelli asked. "Time for you to get a watch," T.J said in a playful tone. "Ha ha very funny Teej," Spinelli said, playfully socking him in the arm.
"It's 3:00pm Spinelli," said Tom. "Thanks Mr. Detwiler," Spinelli said. When they arrived at Spinelli's, Tom and Bob started to fix up a place for T.J to sleep. "What time is it?" T.J asked. "Time for you to get a watch," Spinelli said in a mocking tone, "it's about 7:30pm."
"Dang, when are our moms going to be back?" T.J asked. As if on cue the two mothers walked through the door carrying huge bags. "Whoa, was it buy one get one free or half off at JC Pennys?" T.J asked. "No, we just thought you kids could use some clothes for school tomorrow," Flo said smiling. "Yeah, there's more in the car," Janet said dropping the two bags she was holding.
There was a total of twenty bags, ten for Spinelli and ten for T.J. "well, it's 8'o clock, I'll start dinner," Flo said. "I'll help it's the least I could do to repay you for your kindness," Janet said smiling. "Really, it's no problem at all," Flo said smiling. It was about 8:20pm when they started eating, and 8:45pm when they were finished.
"Dad, if you don't mind I just want to go to bed," Spinelli said putting down her fork. They'd had meatloaf for dinner. Bob smiled and gave Spinelli a quick kiss on the forehead, "okay then good night." Spinelli walked over to her mom who also gave her a kiss, "sweet dreams." "I think I'll go to bed too," T.J said hugging his mom and dad.
"Alright good night, tell Spinelli that we're going to tape wrestling for her okay," said Mr. Spinelli. "Okay, night mom, dad Mr. and Mrs. Spinelli," T.J said walking up the stairs. T.J walked into his room, Spinelli was lying on a mattress on the floor. "Hey, your dad said he'll tape wrestling for you," T.J said smiling. He then noticed that Spinelli was already asleep.
He walked over to her, and kissed her on the cheek, "good night Spin, I love you." "I love you too T.J," she mumbled in her sleep. T.J lay on the other mattress on the floor, which so happened to be next to Spinelli's. With that they both fell to sleep within minutes. Both happy that it was over, or at least that's what they thought.
